163. Is Everything Better Than We Think? | Bjorn Lomborg

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You Cannot Avoid Having a God. Here Is What That Actually Means.

This is the second lecture from the We Who Wrestle With God tour.What does it mean that your God is whatever you put first? Why are the stories that grip you not false but hyper-real? Why is work identical to sacrifice, and what does that reveal about the nature of the covenantal ...  Show more

How to Become Who You Are Meant to Be

What does a 75-year-old man leaving his father's house for the first time have to do with the darkest question a human being can ask about themselves? In this lecture, Jordan Peterson traces a single obsession — how ordinary people commit extraordinary evil — from a teenage encou ...  Show more

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